How to Use married name in a Sentence

married name

noun
  • She used to be Susan Brown, but her married name is Susan Wilson.
  • Her name was Ann Kitchen, the last of her six married names.
    Steve Mannheimer, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The pair shared a photo from in front of a neon sign with their new married name.
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Her married name was Owen, but Ms. Marie was a Bankhead, a name still attached today to roads and parks throughout the state.
    al, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Then the married name initial in the center, followed by the maiden name initial.
    Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2016
  • Back then, she was known by her married name, Desiree Jennings.
    Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That gave her her birth mother’s current, married name.
    Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Gerald’s mother, Berenice Meyers — her surname at birth was the same as her married name — was an opera singer.
    Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • Grusová – her married name – never saw her parents again.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Abigail, the 4-year-old daughter of Miles, who goes by her married name of Blumenstein offstage, was killed.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The decision to remove her married name came after the first of two divorce filings this year.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Porsha Williams, who goes by her married name of Guobadia these days, and her family, have kicked off the summer right.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 15 June 2023
  • The locals knew right away the girl was Blazena Prochazkova, whose married name is Hrabetova.
    Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2018
  • Prior to getting married, my e-mail address was based on my maiden name, and now it is based on my married name.
    Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • Figueroa, who now goes by her married name, Rita Gassman, had career-ending brain surgery to stop a bleed following a bout in 2009.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • However, if written pre-wedding, the bride shouldn't use her married name.
    Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • My email address previously was based on my maiden name, and now it is based on my married name.
    Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • She is listed under her maiden name in the ledger book’s index and a few spaces down logged in by her married name, Desideria Doyle.
    Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Anstead and Storey, who had previously gone by Louise Herbert but is now using her new married name, split in 2017.
    Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Mary Etta, whose married name is Blanchard, expects to be on hand to run Saturday.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Janna Harron says her married name is driving her crazy.
    Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 3 July 2019
  • The problem was that her U.S. passport was in her maiden name, while her vaccination records showed her married name.
    Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Goldberg, who now goes by her married name, May, thought that refusing him could injure her career.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Newspaper archives reveal more about the woman who became best known in life and death by her married name, Mrs. Haring.
    Louisa Chu, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • At the time, the university had no record of Weithorn’s attendance under her married name and maiden name, Schofel.
    David Smiley, miamiherald, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The era has passed in which those who held Ted Hughes responsible for Plath’s suicide would chisel her married name from her headstone.
    Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Lamb, who now goes by her married name, remains employed with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office.
    oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Jared’s wife’s married name would be Ivanka Kushner, not Ivanka Berkowitz.
    Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2016
  • Her iTunes account is registered in her married name from her second husband.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • In mid November, Zolciak seemed to put the conversation to rest for good by reverting back to her married name on Instagram.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023

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